Bartleby’s Preference: Res Ipsa Loquitur
I muse upon my country's ills-The Tempest bursting from the waste of TimeOn the world's fairest hope linked with man's foulest crime.Herman Melville’s short story, “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”, published in late 1853, involves a law clerk whose job profile - that...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2008
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | I muse upon my country's ills-The Tempest bursting from the waste of TimeOn the world's fairest hope linked with man's foulest crime.Herman Melville’s short story, “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”, published in late 1853, involves a law clerk whose job profile - that of “scrivener”- in reality comprised a wide range of menial writing assignments: from the standardized drawing up of bills, bonds, deeds, leases, etc. to the mechanical copying of documents. Compared to the other... |
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